Ryan Larson

sociologist/criminologist AP @HamlineU. PhD @UMNsociology. Crime, punishment, inequality, quant.

[Ryan Larson @ryanplarson]

New paper out in Criminology w/ Rob Stewart, @Veronica_L_H , & @chrisuggen

We model punishment more closely as it is experienced by defendants - a constitutive package of incarceration, probation, and monetary sanctions.

https://t.co/vTTAXESrfl

[Chris Uggen @chrisuggen]

New in Criminology! Punishment as a racialized package of confinement, cash, and surveillance. By @ryanplarson, Rob Stewart, @Veronica_L_H, and some old guy. This detailed thread by Ryan show ‘n tells the story.

[Ryan Larson @ryanplarson]

Overall, we hope our study illustrates the benefits of modeling punishment more closely as it is experienced: as a constitutive package of different forms and intensities of punishment.

non-paywall link here: https://t.co/NffrwzgoS5

[Ryan Larson @ryanplarson]

New paper out in Criminology w/ Rob Stewart, @Veronica_L_H , & @chrisuggen

We model punishment more closely as it is experienced by defendants - a constitutive package of incarceration, probation, and monetary sanctions.

https://t.co/vTTAXESrfl

[Ryan Larson @ryanplarson]

These results highlight how punishment is racialized in complex ways depending upon the axis and context. Accounting for this mix is important for the estimation of racial disparities in sentencing - with both prob/LFOs racialized punitive terrains above and beyond incarceration.

[Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️) @BrendanNyhan]

New in Nature Human Behaviour: How Deceptive Online Networks Reached Millions in the US 2020 Elections

-Reached at least 37M Facebook and 3M Instagram users
-3 networks out of 49 responsible for >70% of users reached
-Exposed users older, more conservative

[Robb Willer @RobbWiller]

@Nature has published three groundbreaking papers on reproducibility, analytical robustness, and replicability across the social sciences. Sincere thanks are due to the many folks who contributed to these projects. It’s painstaking work, and a great service to social science.

[Philipp Heimberger @heimbergecon]

New Acemoglu et al. paper: AI may boost short-term decision quality but can erode the learning incentives that sustain collective knowledge in society, creating a risk of long-run knowledge decline or collapse.

[Chris Uggen @chrisuggen]

New! How homicide changed in Minnesota’s Twin Cities after the police murder of George Floyd. Read @ryanplarson’s thread (and data viz) and/or our team’s new article in J of Quant Crim.

[Ryan Larson @ryanplarson]

Overall, we document an enduring, compositionally distinctive, and spatially concentrated spike in homicide following Floyd’s murder, partially mediated by de-policing. This highlight how institutional ruptures can interact with chronic inequality to reshape lethal violence.

[Ryan Larson @ryanplarson]

Fresh online in JQC (@SpringerCrim) w/ @jillkpeterson, @chrisuggen, and others! We use an ITS design to examine the changes in the Twin Cities in relation to the pandemic and the police murder of George Floyd. Finding summaries below!

Link here: https://t.co/K0Em1FgcW3
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[Ryan Larson @ryanplarson]

Fourth, we observe a decrease in MPD stops after the murder, and reduced proactive policing explains a meaningful portion (~25%) of the post-murder increase in homicide, suggesting that both de-policing and broader social and institutional mechanisms were also at work. 5/n